Talent Transformation Consultant

Location: London, Manchester, Edinburgh

Salary: Competitive salary and benefits

Career Level: Management Consultant (CL9)

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge. We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity.

As a team:

Talent Transformation is the strategic evolution of skills, capabilities, and associated organizational wiring that support an organization’s business strategy. It’s about continuously reinventing talent by identifying and executing on the most critical changes needed across the enterprise, for teams, and for individuals. This is more than just training people, finding faster ways to hire people, or implementing a technology. It’s about truly transforming an organization’s talent and the systems that create lasting organizational change to accelerate strategic execution, drive speed and agility, amplify talent potential, build resilience, and improve sustainability.

We partner with organizations to build a talent strategy that defines how to access, create, and unlock the potential of talent. We help access talent by strengthening diverse talent pipelines, both internal and external, matching the needs of the business to people’s skills and aspirations. We help create talent by using skills as the foundation to help people continuously build market relevant skills through equitable access to career opportunities. And we unlock potential by creating conditions across the organization that allow people to do their best work every day and leave them net better off.

We view skills-driven organizations as a human + technology network where skill-based talent practices unlock opportunities for individuals and maximize talent potential for the organization. We support our clients to build the right capability through implementing learning and re-skilling programmes to ensure organizations have the right people and right skills to better position their talent across the organization based on skill supply/demand.

In our team you will:

• Learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.
• Work in dynamic teams to deliver innovative learning and reskilling solutions to our clients.
• Work with cutting-edge learning technologies and have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.

In this role you will:

• Challenge our clients to think differently in how they can ensure they power their people today and ready them for tomorrow with the right skills and capabilities.
• Understand how digital and AI are impacting the workforce and how required transformational change will mean new skills and roles to tap future value.
• Support organisations to understand the skills they have, the skills they need and how best to address their skill gaps.
• Deliver Talent, learning and reskilling projects to build the right capability for our clients.
• Support clients to rethink ways of working and the behaviours needed to equip their teams to deliver results quickly.
• Support the growth of the Talent & Skilling consulting practice through innovation, capability growth, thought leadership, and market eminence.
• Support in creating market relevant Talent & Skilling points of views, blogs and offerings to create market eminence for Accenture’s Talent consulting and overall T&O.

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• Proven track record in delivering talent management and capability strategy, programmes and/or processes.
• Ability to conduct capability gap assessments and/or training and learning needs analysis within organisations.
• Implementing learning and/or reskilling programmes to build capability within organisations.
• A familiarity or interest in the relevant technologies for pursuing re-skilling from innovative learning to skills analytics.
• A passion for Innovation and Technology trends, understanding the Talent Management ecosystem and how leading-edge technologies and data can drive organisation objectives while supporting the employee/ colleague experience.
• Strong consulting acumen by demonstrating excellent communication, facilitation and data analysis skills to influence others.
• Showing ability to build trusted relationships, and manage stakeholders, both internally and externally to your organisation with clear ability to influence others.

Set yourself apart:

• As a Consultant, we expect that you are forward thinking with a strong business acumen.
• Prioritise continuous development and self-guided learning, personally and your team.
• Have the drive to continuously share your knowledge with others.
• Are open to autonomously operate in a global network & fast pace growth model and comfortable to set your own personal growth plan.
• Are enthusiastic to extend and navigate networks in and outside of Accenture.

What’s in it for you:

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice! Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.